Basic 4 – LO 4.1 Identify Hazards and Risks

Anything which may cause injury or ill.

This hazard includes floors, stairs, work platforms, steps, ladders, fire, falling objects, slippery surfaces, manual handling, loud noise, vibration, heat and cold, radiation, poor lighting, ventilation, and air quality.

This hazard includes electricity, machinery, equipment, pressure vessels, dangerous goods, fork lifts, cranes, and hoists.

This hazard includes chemical substances such as acids or poisons and those that could lead to fire or explosion, cleaning agents, dusts, fibers, mists, gases, vapors, and welding fumes.

This hazard includes bacteria, viruses, mold, mildew, insects, vermin, animals, plants, parasites, mites, and fungi.

Establishing safety protocols for the workplace is another way that companies can positively impact employee health and safety.

Safety protocols allow companies to keep written policies and procedures about how to prevent hazards from occurring in the workplace, as well as provide instructions on how to respond if employees’ health or safety are threatened.

The administration of an organization cannot pose health and safety risks if the internal environment is not maintained and monitored appropriately by a company.

Companies must ensure that employees are protected from safety and health hazards.

Education is an effective way for businesses to maintain their commitment to safety.

The health effects of exposure to toxic substances can always be acute.

People in the workplace may encounter hazards from several sources.

Spot readings can be used to measure acute hazards if the exact point of time of exposure is known and the measurement is taken at that time.

Particle qualitative and quantitative analysis can be carried out by direct reading measurements.

The key to prevent exposure to substances can always be hazardous to our health.

A specific measure of a work-related disease or injury, or a factor associated with occupational health, such as workplace exposures, hazards, or interventions, in a specified population.

An expression of how many events happened over a given period of time by a standardized number of hours worked.

The number of events that happened over a given period of time by a standardized number of employees, usually lower than the standardized number of hours.